Continuing with my summary of what happened at #AGBT23 here’s my round up of the big announcements from Illumina. Of course whilst much of the data presented at the meeting was generated on an Illumina sequencer there was a very significant amount of non-Illumina data […]
Sorry this one is over a year late – but I needed to link to it for my more recent AGBT post!James Illumina has been hugely successful in developing SBS chemistry but their lack of competition in short-read sequencing is being challenged by long-term players […]
I recently returned from the AGBT meeting in Sunny Florida (where it was hot) just 8 months after last years COVID delayed event. That event saw the launch of multiple new Sequencing Companies: Element Bio, Singular Genomics, and Ultima Genomics (the $100 genome company). And […]
Illumina’s Innovation Roadmapjust finished and the team presented a whole lot of excitement with the new instruments: NovaSeq XPlus (available Q1 2023) and NovaSeq X (later) running XPLEAP-SBS (coming in early 2024 to NextSeq 1000 & 2000 on a new, higher output P4 flow cell) to […]
The new G4 benchtop sequencer from Singular Genomics is here. Sept 17th 2021 saw the first picture of the G4 in the wild from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (see below). For anyone still recovering from a 2021 New Year’s hangover, the G4 is a […]
The news (thanks @danravicher) from the recent Illumina vs BGI_MGI that the invalidity of the ‘444 patent means BGI_MGI can enter the US market in 2022 was very interesting. Does it mean Illumina are worrying about new competition – I am not so sure. The […]
I’ve been meaning to write up a post on a BioRxiv report from earlier this year: “Scaling single cell transcriptomics through split pool barcoding”1. The Seelig Lab at the University of Washington have developed a single-cell RNA sequencing method to enable labelling RNA molecules with cell-of-origin information using […]
Last week I followed up on the index-swapping issue after Illumina released their white paper and also covered what Ethan Linck at The Molecular Ecologist had posted about the Sinha et al BioRxiv paper. In that post I said I’d write a follow-up post about index design over the weekend – here it is! […]
The Qiagen GeneReader is an NGS platform developed for the clinic and aims to deliver a sample-to-answer solution. I covered the “launch” of the instrument at the end of 2016 and summarised some of the details but there was no public data to take a […]
Two publications presenting really cool technologies recently caught my attention: “Lego for molecular biology” and “CATCH-Seq: CRISPR for target enrichment sequencing”. Both are technologies I’d like to play with, and my son can join in the Lego modelling if we build some here in Cambridge! Lego […]
